Lech Walesa is a national icon -- an anti-communist hero, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president. But he wasn't invited to Poland's independence gala, and the current president is facing criticism for the slight.

When Edmund Gulvin first joined the Black Watch regiment, he was a 6-year-old "powder monkey." He is now a rifleman and hopes to make sergeant one day if he manages to make it through the Napoleonic Wars.

From UFOs and Crop Circles to Dancing Hamsters and Headless Chickens, you can find plenty of weird topics online. But where can the connoisseur of concentrated eccentricity go for a wide and varied selection of the peculiar in one convenient location? Hello, Wikipedia...